It was a musical Sunday morning at Nyan Thomas World Headquarters, with Bowie playing on the radio and a visiting Uncle Jeff fashioning a microphone out of aluminum foil. Did Nyan enjoy it? He did. Especially since the song playing was all about one of Nyan’s current interests: space.
And here the boy spends about four straight minutes running around in circles, intentionally making himself dizzy. Silly boy:
Just a few short videos from last month, with Grandma in town, of Nyan Thomas singing and goofing around at dinner time.
And here we are ‘in the tunnel’ (a.k.a. under the table)
Fun times after school the other day. First, Nyan Thomas has discovered a new toy: Mommy’s umbrellas! He’ll see them perched by the front door and demand that Daddy take them out and open them up. He then proceeds to try to carry them, or dance on top of them, for a couple of minutes before he gets bored and moves on to something else.
This next video is from later that same day. He’d just had a nice filling dinner and demanded that Daddy give him this plastic implement he saw on the countertop. It’s a syringe-like thingie that helps you get liquid vitamins, medicines etc. into a squirmy toddler’s mouth – a clear hollow tube with a small hole at one end and a bigger one at the other, and a smaller purple tube that goes into the hollow tube and acts as the plunger. Nyan started playing with the hollow clear tube and discovered that it easily turns into a whistle! Here he is showing off his new musical chops.
Sundays are all about fun, and this past Sunday was no exception. We had a great time in the swimming pool – the kid is really getting into it; he would sit on the edge of the pool and fall into Daddy’s arms in the water with no hesitation – but before that, we had some fun around the house. And we’ve got the videos to prove it.
This one shows Nyan checking out Mommy’s flashcards that show different yoga poses. And then – clever lad that he is – he shows off his own yoga pose! Pretty sure this is called the downward dog:
At the end, you can see one of his tricks: he knows there’s a dummy (pacifier) on the chest of drawers, and he wants it. We have been refusing him the dummy of late, because he doesn’t need it; just a habit that we need to break. But he wants it, but of course isn’t tall enough to get it. So what does he do? He goes to Mommy and asks for a cuddle, knowing that she’ll pick him up. And, sure, he loves cuddles – but in this case, it’s just a ruse to get closer to the dummy! The boy is no dummy, that’s for sure. (It didn’t work, by the way; we didn’t give it to him.)
A bit later in the morning, here’s Mommy strumming and singing to the lad, who then decides to add his own guitar stylings:
All in a day’s play for young Nyan Thomas (who, it should be noted, turned 20 months old yesterday!)
It’s no secret that our boy loves music. He also, it turns out, loves to shake his little booty and show off all sorts of dance moves. We’re not entirely sure where he gets his moves from – it sure as heck isn’t his daddy – but there’s no denying that his hips don’t lie. Check out the young man, groovin’ his thang to the fluid sounds of Rubber Ducky:
That wasn’t the only dancing he got up to this past weekend. He also cut a rug in Colchester, as you can see here (the real moves start around 30 seconds in; before that, he’s just running around, screaming ‘Go!!!’ and generally being himself):
More from that dance session (though he’s more interested in eating a potato chip than dancing):
And finally, here he is back at home, post dancing. No dancing here, just Nyan playing with his legos:
Young Nyan Thomas ticklin’ the ivories (with his cousins Caidyn and Mia) at a family get-together this past weekend:
Nyan Thomas visited his Aunt Maggie and Uncle Scott in the suburbs of Chicago over the weekend, and on Sunday morning he got to play with Scott’s guitar and with the family heirloom piano (the same one that Daddy learned to play on some 30 years ago, and the same one that Grandma L. learned to play on many years before that!).
Here’s the young man composing his first piano concerto:
And here he is practicing his guitar chops:
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